Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was, perhaps, an undermanned stockade a mile or so away. If the alarm was given soon enough, he could crouch there in relative safety and watch his homestead burn. If there was no alarm-the usual case-he would almost certainly be butchered or held captive for the squaws to torture. Occasionally a captive would be ransomed or adopted, but young children were never spared; they were too weak to stand a long march to an Indian village, and were customarily brained against trees. Both sides took scalps as a matter of course, but on the whole the Indians...
...Everybody knows these players, son. This is the All-Star game. See that old fellow with the funny crouch? That's Stan Musial. The one with the frown is Roger Marls; the right fielder with the limp is Mickey Mantle. And that fellon-whose cap keeps falling off-that's Willie Mays. See how easy it is?" "Daddy, who's on third?" "Here's 50? son, Go buy a program...
...running bowling alleys, and collecting votes for the Hall of Fame. Yet Musial, his reflexes still sharp and his aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar, knock-kneed batting crouch to hammer a single over second, he rewrites baseball's record book. Even today, says Los Angeles Dodger Coach Leo Durocher, "there is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate." Most of Everything. Seven times National League batting champion (lifetime average: .333), Musial already holds...
...says. "I felt abstract art was too remote from immediate life, that I had to wear blinkers when I walked out onto the street." His use of color goes back to the German expressionists ("I reverted to what had preceded Hofmann"), but the fantasy is all Beauchamp. His creatures crouch or dance in junglelike settings, seem often to be engaged in some sort of orgy. Beauchamp is unable to explain why his fantasy takes the direction it does...
Died. Frank Andrew Burrell, 95, oldest former major league baseball player in the U.S., a catcher who first used the snap throw from a home-plate crouch; of cancer; in Weymouth, Mass...